Software engineers or artists? Programmers' identity choices.
This paper explores how assigning software developers the identity of “engineers” metes out specific assumptions about IT projects. To this end, the paper describes an alternative metaphor of programming as art, which is commonly used by the programmers interviewed. In addition, the discussion draws...
| Publicado en: | TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science Vol. 7; no. 1/2; pp. 21 - 38 |
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TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science
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